“No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.”
Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
The Bridge of Sighs (1844), st. 9.
1840s
“No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.”
Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Michael Szenberg (1934) American economist
10.Paul Samuelson is a Great Maestro.
Ten Ways to Know Paul A. Samuelson (2006)
“Charity is really self-interest masquerading under the form of altruism.”
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer
"The masquerade of charity," p. 19
Awareness (1992)
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 28
Variant: Each kind compassion that man hath on his even-Christians with charity, it is Christ in him.
William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper (1665–1723) English politician and first Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
Attorney-General v. Barnes et uxor (1707), Gilbert Eq. Ca. 5; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 245-248.
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright
Hope, Faith, and Love (c. 1786); also known as "The Words of Strength", as translated in The Common School Journal Vol. IX (1847) edited by Horace Mann, p. 386
Context: There are three lessons I would write, —
Three words — as with a burning pen,
In tracings of eternal light
Upon the hearts of men. Have Hope. Though clouds environ now,
And gladness hides her face in scorn,
Put thou the shadow from thy brow, —
No night but hath its morn. Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, —
The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, —
Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven,
The habitants of earth. Have Love. Not love alone for one,
But men, as man, thy brothers call;
And scatter, like the circling sun,
Thy charities on all. Thus grave these lessons on thy soul, —
Hope, Faith, and Love, — and thou shalt find
Strength when life's surges rudest roll,
Light when thou else wert blind.
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery
Snow Bound, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
An Essay on the Origin of Free-Masonry (1803-1805); found in manuscript form after Paine's death and thought to have been written for an intended part III of The Age of Reason. It was partially published in 1810 and published in its entirety in 1818.
1800s